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Peyton Manning says Broncos offense isn't Colts clone
May 22, 2012 in The Latest Word
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Marijuana prohibition's end would unite police, community, advocate says
May 22, 2012 in The Latest Word
Neill Franklin.Tonight, Neill Franklin, a former Baltimore narcotics cop who's now the executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, aka LEAP, will be speaking in Denver (details below) about ending...
Reader: Student who wore blackface for MLK speech has mom to thank for trouble
May 22, 2012 in The Latest Word
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John Denver peak-naming effort still alive, says fan leading the charge
May 22, 2012 in The Latest Word
Last year, Littleton resident J.P. McDaniel's push to name the east peak of Mount Sopris after singer John Denver made national headlines -- but a story last week implied that...
Lauren Redfern, ex-coach: Sex with student charge dropped because he was almost 18?
May 22, 2012 in The Latest Word
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Focus on the Family defends gay "cure" after past supporter rejects it
May 22, 2012 in The Latest Word
Video below.Update:In an interview on view below, One Colorado executive director Brad Clark predicted that Dr. Robert Spitzer's repudiation of his own 2001 study, which suggested that gays could be...
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Ten unsolved Denver murders: Read personal stories of the victims
May 22, 2012 in The Latest Word
More photos below.As of last year, there were more than 1,500 unsolved homicides in Colorado as tracked by Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons. On numerous entries, the group's...
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Aimee Whitchurch, Lesbian, Denies Scrawling "Kill the Gay" on Her Own Garage
May 22, 2012 in True Crime Report
Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: Last October, Whitchurch and her female partner reported the graffiti on their garage and a noose hanging from their door. Why has the...
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Joan Zalk pleads guilty to animal cruelty for running chihuahua from moving car
May 22, 2012 in The Latest Word
Big photo below.Yoga instructor Joan Zalk saved herself a few steps by running a chihuahua named Cooper from the window of a moving car. But the cost of this not-quite-brilliant idea,...
Michael Vidal's Alleged Breaking & Entering Technique: Car Crashes
May 22, 2012 in True Crime Report
Peyton Manning throws the ball to Broncos receivers -- in public!
May 21, 2012 in The Latest Word
Donald Schaffer ID'd as killer of Joyce, wife of 43 years, in Wheatridge Manor murder-suicide (2)
May 21, 2012 in The Latest Word
Reader: Pizza is so a vegetable, no matter what Jared Polis says
May 21, 2012 in The Latest Word
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Photos: Bike Prom draws more nerds than jocks
May 21, 2012 in The Latest Word
Big photos below.On Friday, the Denver Wheel Club 404 hosted its second annual Bike Prom, this year featuring a Jocks v. Nerds theme. And judging by the photos brought back...
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Five most memorable kids-in-trouble stories
May 21, 2012 in The Latest Word
Videos below.The story of eight-year-old Sean King, who made news for delivering a Martin Luther King speech while wearing blackface, is hardly the first time a local kid found himself...
Hewlett fire photos: James Weber on hook for $300 fine, $2.9 million in restitution?
May 21, 2012 in The Latest Word
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Photos: Top ten "You know you're from Denver when...." punchlines
May 21, 2012 in The Latest Word
Big photos below.When we put together our list of the top ten "You know you're from Colorado when...." punchlines, we had no idea that there was a Facebook page devoted...
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Datha Nation Allegedly Robbed Bank By Threat of Infecting Teller With AIDS
May 21, 2012 in True Crime Report
Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: According to cops, Nation didn't say in her note how she'd transmit the disease, but her ploy worked. Problem is, she kept returning...
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Videos: Solar eclipse draws a crowd in Boulder
May 21, 2012 in The Latest Word
Videos below.When my family members tried to check out last night's solar eclipse from a spot in Jefferson County, they saw...nothing, due to cloud cover. Those who gathered at CU-Boulder's...
Jimma Reat Murder: 911 Dispatcher Who Told Him to Return to Crime Scene Fired
May 21, 2012 in True Crime Report
Colorado Rockies kick off interleague play -- as if anyone could get excited about the Mariners
May 18, 2012 in The Latest Word
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John Hickenlooper, Mike Coffman could see political fallout, pollster says
May 18, 2012 in The Latest Word
Hickenlooper.John Hickenlooper and Mike Coffman aren't exactly ideological twins. But at the end of this big political week in the State of Colorado, they both face political fallout, albeit for...
Reader: Don't put a Colorado native bumper magnet on same SUV as Raiders sticker
May 18, 2012 in The Latest Word
Guy Cruz, probation officer, allegedly told woman no sex = jail
May 18, 2012 in The Latest Word
Felisa Cardona, Ann Schrader, Margaret Jackson exiting Denver Post
May 18, 2012 in The Latest Word